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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55560	The beauty, vigour and strength of youth bespoke for God in a sermon lately preached to young men / by Thomas Powell ...	Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1676 (1676)	Wing P3069; ESTC R33947	28,699	91

shall bend under us And the Grinders cease because they are few Dentes molares Teeth cease And those that look out of the Windowes be darkened The Eyes darkened and dimm'd with Blindness And the Doors shall be shut in the streets Their Maladies so noysome that none can come to visit them And he shall rise up at the voyce of the Bird That is take little rest the chirping of a Bird or any little thing shall awake and disturb him And all the daughters of Musick shall be brought low This may be interpreted by comparing it with 2 Sam. 19. 35. Man goeth to his long home Comp. Iob 30. 23. and Isa. 26. 4. Or ever the silver Cord be loosed Some interpret it of the Marrow others of the Sinews Or the golden Bowl be broken or the Pitcher be broken at the Fountain The Liver is the Fountain of Blood the Heart of Spirits these lose their drawing and distributing Power These things considered viz. the Inconveniencies of Old Age and the Fitness of Youth for the Service of his Creator should methinks prevail with young men to live henceforth not unto themselves but unto their Creator and Redeemer The time of Youth is Seed-time The Proverb is Youth layes in and Age lives upon it The one sowes the other reaps Now is your Market-time in which if ye be wise ye may make a happy Exchange of Earth for Heaven of a Valley of Tears for a Paradise of Delights Young Men consider you are now Flowers in the bloom your Friends Delight your Countreys Hope It lyeth very much in your Sphere to be either a Crown of Rejoyceing to them or to bring down their Gray hairs with sorrow to the Grave But I dare not enlarge Fourthly Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth because if thou thinkest of deferring till Old Age it is a question whether thou mayst live so long besides the Inconveniences of Old Age which I have told you as above written The Best of us cannot promise our selves a day The present Time is onely ours the Morrow we are not sure of Take Time therefore by the Forelock and cry not Cras Cras to Morrow to Morrow Manna must be gathered in the Morning the Orient Pearl is generated by the Morning Dew Egregious folly it is to procrastinate and put off to the last At tu dum primi floret tibi temporis aetas Vtere Tib. Improve your Time while you are Young Fifthly Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth because the Day of Grace may have its Sun-set on a sudden Thou mayst live perhaps to an Old Age but the Day of Grace may not last so long Now the Gospel is preached Christ crucified set forth the assistance of the Spirit offered and the Gates of Heaven opened to entertain you O therefore Now To day if ye will hear his voyce Heb. 3. 7. If to day thou sayst thou wilt not pray to morrow thou mayst say thou canst not pray Now therefore now as you would tender the good of your own Souls work apace you have the Sun-shine of the Gospel but a Cloud will come While the Sun therefore doth shine cock your Hay shock your Corn wanton not away your Summer lest you begge in Winter The Night indeed is for sleeping but the Day especially a Sun-shine Day a clear Day is for working One being in a fit of Anger a person said unto him Domine Sol ad Occasum The Sun is going down If the Sun must not go down upon our Wrath let it not go down upon our Loytering Sixthly If you have your Life prolonged and the Means of Grace continued yet if no more gales of the Spirit be afforded what art thou the nearer When Gods Spirit blows upon us we shall go full Sail to Heaven It is good striking therefore while the Iron is hot and lanching out while Wind and Tide serve open all thy Sails to every breath and gale of Gods Spirit Welcome every Suggestion reverence every Dictate cherish every Illapse of this blessed Monitor Let every Inspiration find thee as the Seal doth the Wax or the Spark the Tinder Seventhly and lastly Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth because the Promise is made unto Early Seekers Prov. 8. 17. They that seek me Early shall find me Application Is there good Reason why we should Remember our Creator in the dayes of our Youth Then let my Message to you O Young Men this day be accepted The Reasonableness of my Message I have shewed in several Respects Did I press you to things that might tend to your hurt it were something but I am onely intreating you this day to be kind unto your Souls and make your peace with God While the dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when ye shall say I have no pleasure in them The Result of all therefore is Young men Remember your Creator by whom it is that you live move and have your Being Forget him not lest he forget you but seek him Early and ye shall find him Motives hereunto I think very convenient As First If Honour will sway you know that it is the Honourablest thing in the world to Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth Is it commendable for a Child to obey his Earthly Father how much more commendable is it then for us to Obey our Heavenly Father Shun O Young Men the Worlds Ambition and make this your Ambition with good Iosiah to set out betimes with spiritual Isaac to give your selves to Meditation while ye are young with heavenly Iacob to prize and seek the Blessing while others in the use of their vain Sports lose it with King Solomon to know the God of your Fathers with righteous Obadiah to fear the Lord from your Youth and with Ingenious Timothy to know the Scriptures from a Child And what a Cloud of young Worthies are here and are they not Honoured Renowned and made Famous and that for their soon beginning The like will be with you Young men Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth and he will Honour you But alas how few are the number of these young Branches How few are there of the Sons of Wisdom that being enticed by Men consent not But how Honourable is it I say for young Men like Samuel to minister and serve before the Lord while he was but a Child and how comely was the Carriage of those Children that sang Hosanna's unto Christ Contemplate often Young men these Looking-glasses imitate and copy out these patterns and Presidents Besides King Edward the Sixth that Phoenix of his time that truely Noble Prince Henry and the young Lord Harrington with many others who blossomed as the Almond-tree betimes Secondly The longer you neglect the more difficult will the setting upon your Duty be Much Sloath and Procrastination will at last take away the very Heart and

to be loved for himself Du Moulin Treatise of Peace and Contentment of Mind Tota Lex Christi tribus literulis includitur Ama. Deum ama omnes leges servasti Drexelius Christus inter Amicos maximus Praecepta docent exempla movent Treatise of making Religion ones Business pag. 333. Mr. Francis Xavarias counsel'd Iohn the Third King of Portugal to meditate every day a quarter of an hour upon this Text What shall it profit a man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul Mark 8. 36 The Apostle Paul carryed the Image of Christ in his heart as a Saint the Message of Christ in his mouth as a Minister and the Mark of Christ in his body as a Martyr The way to Paradise is by a flaming Sword the way to Canaan is through a howling Wilderness and the way to Heaven is by the Gates of Hell Constantine the Great when hearing a Sermon would ever and anon start out of his Chair of State and stand up for a while being affected and it may be terrified with the Word insomuch that his Courtiers were amazed because such a posture did not become so high a place Euseb. de vit Constant. l. 3. c. 17. Tantâ reverentiâ ut si Deo tantâ fiduciâ ut si amico 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus propitius est illis qui dolent quòd ipsum peccatis suic offenderunt ac proinde trepidant quum cogitant se damnationem aeternam esse meritos Piscat in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esau mourned Iudas confessed Ahab humbled himself in dust and Cain sacrificed but none of these were accepted with God because the root of the matter was not in them Hypocritae cupit se videri justum Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal. 110. 3. Hebr. Willingnesses the Abstract and in the Plural Number See Psal. 68. 10. As if the Holy Ghost could not speak enough how willing they are to note exceeding great willingness to submit to every Commandment of the Lord or it may signifie Free-will Offerings voluntary Oblations Jun. alii Our Obedience must be compleat We must not only begin well but end well Finit coronat Opus Rea. 1. Rea. 2. Religion that was first in Gods intention is now become last in mans execution Rea. 3. God can easily look us into the Grave frown us into Hell He is a beast in the shape of a Man that will not serve that God at whose Mercy he lies every moment The work of Redemption is many wayes to be admired more than Creation God is Centrum quietativum as the Schools speak the proper quieting resting Centre of the Soul and in him alone can it truely rest In h●c peccabam quod non in Deo sed in creaturis ejus me atque caeteras voluptates quarebam atque ita irruebamin dolores confusiones errores animae Aug. Tu bonum null indigens bouo semper quietus es quoniam tua quies tuipse es Idem Bonus est qui secit me ipse est bonum meum illi exulto omnibus bonis meis He is Good that made me saith Aug and he is My Good and in him do I exult and rejoyce Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. Doct. 2. Rea. 1. Iuventutis assecla est stultitia as a Page follows his Master so Folly follows Youth Nazian orat 46. in Ecclesiast Vicina la●sibus est Adolescentia Youth is the Age whereunto men are neerest and most ready to fall witness the Prodigal Rea. 2. Rea. 3. The great weight of Eternity hangs upon the small wire of Time Dumvires annique sinunt tolerate laborem I am veniet tacito curva senecta pede Ovid. Iuveni parandum seni utendum Sen. Primitiae terrae primitiae aetatis Deosacrae Rea. 4. Rea. 5. It is observed that the Season of Grace is call'd but a Day not a Month Week or Year The Season of Grace saith one is a Summers day for Clearness but a Winters day for Shortness Caesar's deferring to read his Letter before he went to the Senate-house cost him his Life Rea. 6. The Word is as the Wax the Spirit is as the Seal so that the Spirit is the principal Verbal in the sentence Rea. 7. Motive 1. Motive 2. Motive 3. Motive 4. Noli anima diligere ea quae sunt in mundo peribit Mundus omnia quae sunt in eo exurentur Ger. Meditat. Amor rerum terrenarum viscus est spiritualium poenarum Aug. Wirness Thomas Savage that penitent Sinner Non saciendum quia Multifaciunt sed quia Bonum ut Bon●m faciunt aut bene satis mihi sunt pauci satis unus satis nullus August Si potenti●res faciunt non faciunt sed gaudeo quia faciunt